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SALACIOUS
- Arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination; lascivious, lecherous, lustful.
- Usage: Story on an illicit video taken at the Burning Man Festival in Nevada against the organizers' permission and offered for sale on the internet; the video producers are being sued for invasion of privacy.
Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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SEMIAUTONOMOUS
- Largely self-governing within a larger political or organizational entity.
- Usage: Report on protests in Pakistan over President Pervez Musharraf's police crackdown on radical foreign nationals alleged to have ties to terrorist organizations in Jami Khel, Pakistan, in a lawless region where the government of Pakistan in the past has exerted no influence or control.
Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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